Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to lead key initiatives in robotic intelligence. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you'll spearhead the development of breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. You'll drive technical excellence in areas such as perception, manipulation, science understanding, sim2real transfer, multi-modal foundation models, and multi-task learning, designing novel algorithms that bridge the gap between state-of-the-art research and real-world deployment at Amazon scale.

- Lead technical initiatives in robotics foundation models, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas like open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, sim2real/real2sim techniques, end-to-end vision-language-action models, efficient model inference, video tokenization

- Design and implement novel deep learning architectures that push the boundaries of what robots can understand and accomplish

- Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments

- Mentor and support fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions

- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize and scale models for real-world applications

- Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus